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Browse our featured posts or search the archives from Freedom to Marry's blog, which tracked breaking news developments, featured analyses of the fight for marriage, and showcased stories of momentum for national resolution.

Today, on almost every front page of a newspaper, from small towns in Arkansas to the biggest cities in the nation, same-sex couples are featured prominently, and headlines report that the United States Supreme Court has struck down bans on marriage between same-sex couples.

Today, June 12, marks the 48th anniversary of the United States Supreme Court's decision on Love v. Virginia, a landmark ruling that declared bans on interracial marriage in the United States unconstitutional.

Today, June 10, Pulaski County Judge Wendell Griffen ruled in favor of respecting the marriages of the over 500 same-sex couples who were married in the "window" of the freedom to marry in Arkansas in 2014.

Last night, Freedom to Marry president and founder Evan Wolfson, alongside law professor and author Kenji Yoshino, debated so-called National Organization for Marriage chairman John Eastman and Sherif Gergis before a live audience on the question of the freedom to marry on Intelligence Squared U.S.

Today, May 29, Freedom to Marry launched a TV ad that follows the story of a man who's given his life to protecting his country in the United States Navy, and yet still lacks the freedom to marry in his home state of Tennessee.

On May 27, Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry campaign manager Jerri Ann Henry appeared on 'The Last Word' with Lawrence O'Donnell to underline that the current politicians who have declared their candidacy for the 2016 presidential nomination don't represent many conservatives' views on the freedom to marry.

Freedom to Marry was the campaign to win marriage nationwide. With the Supreme Court victory on June 26, 2015, the work of this strategic campaign – though not the larger movement – was achieved, and Freedom to Marry wound down its operations, closing in early 2016. For inquiries, please email legacy@freedomtomarry.org.